Happy Gay Day, Hypocrites Edition

So would what happened today in 1980 be like if she were caught on camera saying orange juice tastes like piss?

TODAY IN HISTORY (May 22):

1761 - The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia.

1849 - Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.

1927 - An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims.

1967 - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered on PBS.

1970 - The Gay Student's Union at the University of California at Berkeley held a "People's Dance" which was described by some members of the organization as the most significant event of the year. Both gay and straight students attended.

1972 - Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union.

1976 - Police raid Montreal's Club Baths and charge twenty-seven men - part of a crack down on vice before the opening of the Montreal Olympics. Montreal's Club Baths also had been raided two days earlier with 26 arrests.

1980 - Anita Bryant, who led the campaign to repeal a gay rights law in Dade County Florida and once said that divorce was one of the worst sins a person could commit, filed for divorce.

1990 - Thirty-two students were transferred out of their dormitory at Ohio State University because they harassed two gay students. One of the transferred students claimed he was really the victim, and accused the gay students of blowing things out of proportion. The harassment included threats, physical attacks, harassing phone calls, death threats, and DIE FAGS written on their doors.

1992 - Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show.

1998 - The headquarters of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches announced that MCC Bournemouth in England had received two bomb threats in the last two months.

Born on this day:

1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
1813 - Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1844 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
1910 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
1922 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
1930 - Harvey Milk, American politician and gay rights activist (d. 1978)
1936 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor
1938 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
1941 - Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist (The Unabomber)
1950 - Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
1959 - Morrissey, English singer
1970 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
1982 - Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater

Comments

[Hubbard]

1894 - Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.

We're not talking about President Lincoln (d. 1865), are we? Or are we thinking of a ship named for Abraham Lincoln?

[Malcontent]

The man is right; the year is wrong. It was indeed Honest Abe, but it should say 1849. I will correct it.

[Attmay]

Four years ago I read an article (don't remember where) saying that Anita Bryant was constantly broke, owing money to everyone she knew, and moving from place to place. It made me feel good inside.

[Scott]

She was also, at one time, associating with a clergyman who had a positive Gay outreach ministry (unlike hers). The question is, where are her kids today--one son and one daughter, I believe. Are they more or less messed up than she seems to be?

[Michael K. Bassham]

And to add to the list of birthdays, mine!!!

[Chris]

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http://www.one.org/ActionHost.html

[telescope patio furniture]

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